
09-25-2006, 05:33 PM
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by the way, I found the exact same interpretation in another place:
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There has also been some heated discussion on a possible loophole in the 22nd amendment that might allow Bill Clinton to serve beyond his
prescribed constitutional limit. There is nothing in the language of the 22nd Amendment that precludes a former president from becoming vice-president. So, for example, Al Gore or Hilary Clinton could run for president in 2004 and name Bill Clinton as their vice-president.
Upon the death, incapacity, impeachment, or resignation of the president, Bill Clinton could then assume the office. There is a statement in the 12th Amendment which appears to cover this loophole, however: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am12
In an article title "Why the Constitution Permits a Clinton-Gore
ticket," Michael C. Dorf, vice dean and professor of law at Columbia
University, says that the 12th Amendment would allow Clinton to become
Vice-President, however. "The 12th Amendment would allow a Clinton vice-presidency. Its language only bars from the vice-presidency those persons who are "ineligible to the office" of President. Clinton is
not ineligible to the office of president, however. He is only disqualified (by the 22nd Amendment) from being elected to that office."
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/08/colum...clinton.08.01/
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